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Hi guys,
Just a quick question, I heard rumors that a new channel called PB&J is coming to air, eventually. Here's an alleged promo for the channel,
I was googling around and it seems that satellite info is out of date on various sites or at the very least, out of sync.
One site I found says there is something of interest on the satellite at 137. I think it's an Alaskan satellite.
I'm not yet able to get a dish pointed over that way just yet and even so, I fear trees are going to put the brakes on that one anyway.
Is there really anything on 137 to make it worth the trouble (cutting trees down again) or should I just sit tight and hope that the channel will show up on other satellites that are easier to aim at?
I would love to get those old time cartoons, I haven't seen most of those since I was little. Cartoons from the 80's and up are of no interest to me. Well, except for Winnie the Pooh. I used to watch that back in the 80's. I liked it a lot then and I wouldn't mind seeing it again.
Thanks..
Just a quick question, I heard rumors that a new channel called PB&J is coming to air, eventually. Here's an alleged promo for the channel,
I was googling around and it seems that satellite info is out of date on various sites or at the very least, out of sync.
One site I found says there is something of interest on the satellite at 137. I think it's an Alaskan satellite.
I'm not yet able to get a dish pointed over that way just yet and even so, I fear trees are going to put the brakes on that one anyway.
Is there really anything on 137 to make it worth the trouble (cutting trees down again) or should I just sit tight and hope that the channel will show up on other satellites that are easier to aim at?
I would love to get those old time cartoons, I haven't seen most of those since I was little. Cartoons from the 80's and up are of no interest to me. Well, except for Winnie the Pooh. I used to watch that back in the 80's. I liked it a lot then and I wouldn't mind seeing it again.
Thanks..
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Well, I shouldn't really do this but, well I'm at the half century mark. So I remember cartoons that are long, long gone now... Saturday mornings for me were a very different world than they are now. We had a black and white set through the 60's so I only got to watch color cartoons when I got to spend the weekend with my grandmother, Grandpa was very well to do and bought a big color console tv, and I spent a lot of time over there when I was little..
I remember when Looney Toons were the de facto standard cartoon. Road Runner and stuff like that. Oh, and Tex Avery stuff. Tom & Jerry, Lulu, Felix, Casper.. Etc.. The REAL cartoons. Hand painted cells, not this computerized nonsense. During the 70's I didn't watch much if any TV so I really just don't remember what cartoons were on during that era.
I also used to love the old Disney shows that came on once a week. And Red Skelton. I know that wasn't a cartoon show but it's the time frame of when TV wasn't so bad like it is now.
I did like the Winnie the Pooh cartoons, I think they came out in the late 70's or early 80's. Seems like I was in my early 20's or there about when those were airing. I used to sit in my tiny apartment sipping coffee and watching them and Smurfs. Winnie the Pooh was a clean, feel good form of escapism that I really enjoyed a lot. When they took that off the air that ended my cartoon watching. At least until I had kids.
My kids were little in the late 80's and through the early to mid 90's and the cartoons that aired then, I couldn't stand! NONE of them. And my son, he dominated the TV. There weren't many cartoons on for girls to begin with and he made darn sure that his sister didn't get to see any of them.
Anyway, the cartoons I like were the ones primarily inked and shot in the 40's - 60's. Years ago I was at a friend's house and she had on a cable channel for her kids that was running old cartoons, I ~think~ it was Toonland or something like that, I don't recall the name. But I'll bet a box of donuts that they ditched all the oldies and are running reality shows and computer cartoons now..
Sigh....
I can't hit 137 from Connecticut unfortunately.
Scott Greczkowski said:I can't hit 137 from Connecticut unfortunately.
I can hit it with the 7.5 but the 10 has trees in the way
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We don't get "Antenna TV" here. I rather doubt we ever will. The nearest one is in Houston and that is 100+ miles away. My folks can no longer get ANY Houston channels since everything went digital. Before digital they could pick up lots of Houston and Louisiana channels, they have a huge antenna up 30' high with a motor to turn it around from below. Not a smart motor, just a knob on a box you turn, there is a pointer on the knob and compass points on the box. You turn it to a compass point and it makes chugging noises as it turns the antenna around. A little light on the box goes on and off when the antenna is moving. For 30+ years they could get stuff from waaaaaaaaaay off with that setup and now with the digital, they can only get local channels, period.
If they can't get Houston I know there's no way I will be able to, my antenna is only 20' up, it's a small, cheap one with no motor and it just barely works for the local channels.. Our area is very much behind the times in everything. We're 50 years behind Houston and always the very last to adopt to new things. The local stations waited to go digital down to the absolute deadline and they still haven't gotten it working right yet. Several of the local channels are broadcasting a 1920x1080 ~~ signal ~~ but the picture itself is still the old resolution and displays as a small square in the middle of a LOT of black border...
I guess if you don't have cable or pizza dish tv you're just out of luck when you live in the boonies..
Oh, and Pink Panther is cool with me. I grew up with that toon too. I like the first ones though and not the later versions that they messed up, like the later versions of Tom & Jerry were outsourced to Czechoslovakia and the artwork was HORRIBLE. The 50's was the last time Tom & Jerry was watchable. They really botched it up from the 60's on...
If they can't get Houston I know there's no way I will be able to, my antenna is only 20' up, it's a small, cheap one with no motor and it just barely works for the local channels.. Our area is very much behind the times in everything. We're 50 years behind Houston and always the very last to adopt to new things. The local stations waited to go digital down to the absolute deadline and they still haven't gotten it working right yet. Several of the local channels are broadcasting a 1920x1080 ~~ signal ~~ but the picture itself is still the old resolution and displays as a small square in the middle of a LOT of black border...
I guess if you don't have cable or pizza dish tv you're just out of luck when you live in the boonies..
Oh, and Pink Panther is cool with me. I grew up with that toon too. I like the first ones though and not the later versions that they messed up, like the later versions of Tom & Jerry were outsourced to Czechoslovakia and the artwork was HORRIBLE. The 50's was the last time Tom & Jerry was watchable. They really botched it up from the 60's on...
I only got to watch color cartoons when I got to spend the weekend with my grandmother..........I also used to love the old Disney shows that came on once a week.
I will always remember as I was growing up, every Sunday going to my Grandparents to watch The Wounderful World of Disney. We only had a B&W set and they had Colour. Many times they had a can of A&P (grocery store chain around here at the time) branded pop for me.
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So let the game continue!
The last song was added by Bobby who posted...
One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters
CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!
Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game
Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.
Example:
Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow
Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio
Another example:
Ride the Lightning -- Metallica
Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne
Get it?
An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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For quite a while now, people with a VIP211k have been losing their recordings on their activated external HDDs... even when there's nothing physically wrong with HDD. I believe this is an intentional and underhanded tactic that Dish is pulling in an attempt to force users away from the VIP211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
They are obviously regretting that they ever let users have a "non-dvr" dvr in the first place. You would think they would be happy charging you a $40 one time fee... and then be happy letting the customer be the one responsible for HDD failures.
Dish clearly hates the 211k bitter-clingers. This recording deletion problem is intentional (IMO), and I think it is just one more tool that they are using. Hopper and a 2-year agreement... that's what they want you to have. Think about that... a 2-year agreement... with a company $30 Billion in debt (that's with a B). What happens when all that debt causes them to drop the channel that may have been your whole reason for having Dish in the first place? Guess who's stuck with a service that no longer suits their needs... for the remainder of the 2-year agreement.
On top of that, they don't want you to install it yourself. I purchased and installed all my equipment myself. That used to be common. Now, they lie to me and tell me that my dish must be updated to use a Hopper. Funny thing is... they don't even know what dish I have because they didn't install it, and I didn't tell them. If you ask what type of dish/LNBs the hopper needs... good luck getting an answer. All they know is that whatever you have needs to be upgraded by an installer.
It is quite apparent to me that they care much more about staying in their box, than they do working with the customer. That's too bad, because it hasn't always been that way. It's like they are totally unaware of the current business environment that they are trying to compete in.
I have been a customer since 2010. I will be cancelling my service before the next period. Yeah, I know, my $1,200 a year won't make a difference to them. It just seems like they have forgotten who needs who, especially when you consider the competition in today's streaming world. But hey, they will have succeed in forcing me off the 211k.
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Has anyone subscribed to NBA League Pass for 2026-27 and try to link their account to NBA.com to stream League Pass? I purchased it for 2026-27, and when I linked, I got a message saying success, but then I receive an error that my linked subscription does not include the preseason games for NBA League Pass. Is that how it has always been? I know satellite doesn't have the preseason games on the NBA League Pass channels, but I thought that I was able to stream the preseason once I linked my account on NBA.com?
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Really excited for this season with Kentucky having a new coach and some really exciting recruits. Probably won't last long, but here's hoping this season is great.
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Nah, you just don't understand how ignore works, which is why you made your own NFL thread thinking there wasn't one
For some reason, the satelliteguys.us site is loading a lot slower than usual on both Chrome on my Asus laptop and Safari on my iPhone.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
I'm also seeing longer appearances of the blue bar at the top and the "3 blue bars" loading symbol.
Is anyone else also having the same problem? Thanks in advance.
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Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat. 
WTF… …What the Foxbat!Remember folks... just like DNS... its always Foxbat.
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I thought I would come here and find lots of complaints about the update to the dish anywhere mobile app, but am not seeing any. It used to look just like the desktop webpage. Now you can no longer filter by sports channels or movie channels. Plus that they made it look like a big button telephone and you see fewer channels in the screen which requires more scrolling. Yes I realize you can look at sports then select which sport you want to look at, I just liked being able to see all sporting events in the guide with all other channels being filtered out. Am I alone in the wilderness on this?
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Apple has finally released their Apple TV 4K with built-in Siri and a microphone so it can respond to your queries even if you don't have the remote. It also increases in price, to $299. I had been planning on updating my current Apple TV 4K streamers, but that's $600 for the two of them, and that's a pass at this point.
At $299, it had better come with 256 GB of Storage, Gigabit (or better) Ethernet, the latest HDMI tech and standards, and one year of free Apple One. But it probably won't…
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. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
they all do that anyways.. ever notice your cell phone slows down when you come up for an upgrade..
. apple's been making money off of software and not hardware for a while
You should have looked in the APP STORE instead.
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Several Dish offers showed up today in my account. Once you choose one the rest are removed. Offers were Showtime, Starz, AMC and others.
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Not for me, mines has no mention of how long aka the offer period and the Terms and conditions the $0.00 is good for. All I see is one can lose $5.00 if you decide to remove it before day 31 after you add it to the account.
You have a different offer that is free for a shorter timeframe which is different than the one that I and bnewt saw without defining the promotion period as I sent the question to DISH Care via Facebook Messenger and this is the response I got back 20 minutes ago.